The Bangladesh River Journey, a BBC World Service project to track climate change, for which we built the interactive mini-site, has recently received two prestigious awards. These awards recognise the innovative way that the project brought social media reporting on important global issues into an engaging user-experience.
Category: Dharmafly Creations
Goo Music
April 2, 2008 – 11:46 am
URL: goomusic.net
Goo Music are a vibrant, young band management company in London. They manage The Subways, a high-energy band who are currently putting together the final touches to their second album and are about to launch a world tour.
We’ve created a distinctive website for the business, in the style of a one-page fanzine that keeps [...]
YLiveGroups: Live Video at BarcampBrighton2
March 15, 2008 – 1:09 pm
This weekend is BarcampBrighton2, a grassroots technology conference organised and run by the participants. Over the last couple of days, we’ve been piecing together a special Greasemonkey userscript for the conference, which enables Yahoo Live users to broadcast live video as a group. We call it YLiveGroups.
» Install the script
We first used Yahoo Live at [...]
Social Compost: Liberate Your Peelings!
March 14, 2008 – 11:57 am
I’ve submitted “Social Compost” as a project proposal to Social Innovation Camp.
SI Camp is a grassroots conference, where social entrepreneurs and web developers get together to help each other out. A number of great ideas have been submitted, a few of which will be selected for the event. My idea is to connect local people [...]
SemanticCampLondon
February 19, 2008 – 1:45 pm
This weekend was SemanticCampLondon (alt) - a grassroots conference of semantic web developers.
Semantics is all about meaning - and the idea of the “semantic web” is to use techniques that add greater and greater meaning to web content. The intention is for computers - as well as humans - to “understand” something of the content, [...]
HackHUD
December 13, 2007 – 5:52 pm
Well, this one didn’t get blogged yet… Back in June, we stayed up all night at the BBC / Yahoo Hack Day in London. The task was to combine data sources and build something experimental - and a little bit edgy.
We forged a script to enhance mainstream news sites (such as BBC News) with a [...]
BBC Bangladesh River Journey
November 7, 2007 – 3:00 pm
URL: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat
Phew! We’ve been busy these last three weeks! From commission to launch in just 12 working days (and nights), Dharmafly has built a site for the BBC that explores social media and cutting edge Web technologies…
The Bangladesh River Journey is a mashup of posts from a BBC World Service trip to track the effects [...]